ADVISORY BOARD
Director: prof. dr Kees Hengeveld.
Vice-director: dr Rob Schoonen (back-up prof. dr Folkert Kuiken) Members:
Prof. dr Paul Boersma (back-up dr Roland Pfau)
Prof. dr Enoch Aboh (back-up prof. dr Wim Honselaar) Prof. dr Fred Weerman (back-up prof. dr Olga Fischer)
Postdoc representative: dr Yarbay Duman (back-up dr Liesbeth Zack)
PhD candidate representative: drs Renee Clapham (back-up drs Marlou van Rijn)
SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL
Prof. dr. Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (University of Stockholm) Prof. dr Pieter Muysken (University of Nijmegen)
Prof. dr Leo Noordman (University of Tilburg) Prof. dr Neil Smith (University College London) Prof. dr Bencie Woll (University College London)
SENIOR STAFF
The following list contains the names of all persons who are currently employed or who were employed as senior staff members at the ACLC during (part of) 2012. The current research groups that the member is related to are also given. A research group in brackets means that the researcher is interested in this group but does not invest research time in it. In the case of members who have not joined a research group the topic of research is given.
prof. dr Enoch Aboh (*1962)
Professor: Learnability of Human Languages (1-9-2012 until 1-9-2017) Research Groups:
1. Language Creation
2. Functional Categories in Analytic Languages 3. (DP/NP: structure, acquisition and change) dr Ingrid van Alphen (*1951)
Lecturer.
Research Group: Crosslinguistic Semantics dr Sible Andringa (*1975)
Lecturer/Postdoc NWO Towards a theory of second-language proficiency: the case of segmenting and comprehending oral language (01-08-2007 until 01-09-2012).
Research Group: Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
dr Jenny Audring (07-11-2011 until 06-02-2012)
Postdoc UvA. Preparation of FGw-UvA research application.
prof. dr Anne Baker (*1948)
Professor: General linguistics, in particular psycholinguistics and language pathology & Professor: Sign Language of the Netherlands.
Research Groups:
1. Grammar and Cognition
2. Sign Language Grammar and Typology dr Anne Bannink (*1954)
Senior (as per September 2012) Lecturer. Research Group: Institutional Discourse prof. dr Hans Bennis (*1951)
Professor: Language variation in Dutch. Meertens Instituut (KNAW)
Research Group: Grammar and Cognition dr Catherine van Beuningen (*1979)
Lecturer/Postdoc NWO Towards a theory of second-language proficiency: the case of segmenting and comprehending oral language (01-09-2011 until 01-09-2012).
Research Group: Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition. dr Tamás Bíró (*1975)
Postdoc NWO Veni, Efficiënt communication full of errors: linguistic performance in a virtual speech community (01-02-2009 until 10-02-2012)
Research Group: Bidirectional Phonology and Phonetics dr Elma Blom (*1972)
Postdoc EU Marie Curie, A cross-context study of early language skills of
immigrant children in Canada and the Netherlands (01-04-2009 until 01-04-2012). Postdoc Research Priority Area Brain and Cognition (01-04-2012 until 1-12-2012) Research Group: Grammar and Cognition
dr Bart de Boer (*1970)
Postdoc NWO Vidi, Modelling the evolution of speech (01-03-2007 until 25-2-2012). Research Group: Modelling the Evolution of Language
prof. dr Paul Boersma (*1959)
Professor: Phonetic Sciences. NWO Vici: Emergent Categories and Connections (1-3- 2009 until 1-3-2014).
Research Group: Bidirectional Phonology and Phonetics. dr Leston Buell (*1963)
Postdoc NWO Functional categories in analytic languages (01-02-2009 until 01-04- 2012; extension granted until 11-07-2012).
Research Group: Functional Categories in Analytic Languages. prof. dr Michiel van den Brekel (*1961)
Professor: Oncology related voice and speech, especially in laryngectomized individuals
Research Group: Oncology-related Communication Disorders dr Robert Cloutier (*1979)
Lecturer (as per September 2012)
Research Group: Grammar and Cognition dr Jan Don (*1963)
Lecturer.
Research Group: Grammar and Cognition dr Margreet Dorleijn (*1956)
Lecturer.
Research Group: Language Creation prof. dr Olga Fischer (*1951)
Professor: Linguistics of the Germanic languages, in particular English linguistics. Research Groups:
1. Iconicity
2. DP/NP: Structure, Acquisition and Change dr Arjen Florijn (*1947) (until September 2012) Lecturer.
Research Group: Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition dr René Genis (*1962)
Lecturer.
Research Group: Comparative Slavic Verbal Aspect dr Silke Hamann (*1971)
Lecturer
Research Group: Bidirectional Phonology and Phonetics
prof. dr Kees Hengeveld (*1957)
Professor: General linguistics, in particular theoretical linguistics. Research Groups:
1. Functional Discourse Grammar 2. Crosslinguistic Semantics
3. Language Description and Documentation
prof. dr Wim Honselaar (*1947) (until January 2012)
Professor: Culturele relaties Nederland - Oost-Europa / Senior lecturer Research Groups:
1. Functional Discourse Grammar 2. Crosslinguistic Semantics prof. dr Aafke Hulk (*1952) Professor: Dutch Linguistics. Research Groups:
1. Grammar and Cognition
2. DP/NP: Structure, Acquisition and Change prof. dr Jan Hulstijn (*1947) (until March 2012) Professor: Second language acquisition.
Research Group: Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition prof. dr ir Wim Jansen (*1948)
Professor: Interlinguistics and Esperanto. Research Group: Language Creation dr Jan de Jong (*1955)
Lecturer.
Research Group: Grammar and Cognition dr Janneke Kalsbeek (*1953)
Lecturer.
Research Group: Comparative Slavic Verbal Aspect dr Tom Lenz (06-2012 until 08-2012)
Postdoc UvA. Preparation of FGw-UvA research application. dr Olaf Koeneman (*1970) (until December 2012). Lecturer
Research Group: Grammar and Cognition prof. dr Folkert Kuiken (*1953)
Professor: Dutch as a second Language.
Research Group: Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition dr. Erik Metz (*1971)
Lecturer
dr Alla Peeters-Podgaevskaja (*1968) (as per September 2012) Lecturer
Research Group: Crosslinguistic Semantics dr Harry Perridon (*1947) (until August 2012) Senior Lecturer.
Research Group: DP/NP: Structure, Acquisition and Change
dr Roland Pfau (*1966) Lecturer.
Research Groups:
1. Sign Language Grammar and Typology 2. Grammar and Cognition
dr Judith Rispens (*1972). Lecturer Learnability.
Research Group: Grammar and Cognition. dr Jeannette Schaeffer (*1965)
Lecturer (until August 2012).
Postdoc Research Priority Area Brain and Cognition (01-01-2012 until 03-03-2014) Research Group: Grammar and Cognition
1. Research Group: Grammar & Cognition 2. Learnable and Unlearnable Languages dr Rob Schoonen (*1960)
Senior lecturer.
Research Group: Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition dr Mauro Scorretti (*1953)
Lecturer.
Research Group: Revitalizing Older Linguistic Documentation dr Petra Sleeman (*1957)
Lecturer.
Research Group:
1. DP/NP: Structure, Acquisition and Change 2. Crosslinguistic Semantics
dr Eva van Lier (*1978)
Postdoc NWO Veni, Nouns and verbs, and what it means not to have them (01-10- 2011 until 01-10-2015).
Research Group: Functional Discourse Grammar. dr Ineke Vedder (*1952)
Lecturer.
Research Group: Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition prof. dr Arjen Versloot (*1965).
Professor: Frisian linguistics. (until September 2012) Professor: Germanic linguistics (as per September 2012) Research Group: Bidirectional Phonology and Phonetics dr David Weenink (*1953)
Lecturer.
Research group: Bidirectional Phonology and Phonetics
prof. dr Fred Weerman (*1957) Professor: Dutch linguistics.
Research Group: Grammar and Cognition dr Tuba Yarbay Duman (*1978)
Postdoc NWO Veni, Identifying specific language impairment in monolingual and bilingual children: Executive functions and linguistic processing (01-03-2011 until 01- 12-2014).
Research Group: Grammar and Cognition. dr Liesbeth Zack (*1975)
Lecturer.
Postdoc NWO Veni, The making of a capital dialect: Language change in 19th century Cairo (01-01-2012 until 01-01-2016)
Research Group: Revitalizing Older Linguistic Documentation dr Hedde Zeijlstra (*1975)
Lecturer.
Postdoc NWO Veni Doubling and Redundancy (01-06-2008 until 01-06-2012). Research Groups:
1. Grammar and Cognition
2. Crosslinguistic Semantics
dr Otto Zwartjes (*1958) Lecturer.
Research Group: Revitalizing Older Linguistic Documentation